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Problem of the week 37

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We have one exchange server 2003 and two locations.
These locations are connected by VPN. One server is running windows 2000 server, the other windows 2003 server. Exchange is running on the 2000 server.
There was absolutly no problem untill we installed servicepack 2 for windows and service pack 1 for exchange. From that moment on the link would not allow the transmission of data bigger than 1500 bytes.
The MS helpdesk could not find a solution.
Finally we did it!
What did we do to make this work again?

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We have one exchange server 2003 and two locations.
These locations are connected by VPN. One server is running windows 2000 server, the other windows 2003 server. Exchange is running on the 2000 server.
There was absolutly no problem untill we installed servicepack 2 for windows and service pack 1 for exchange. From that moment on the link would not allow the transmission of data bigger than 1500 bytes.
The MS helpdesk could not find a solution.
Finally we did it!
What did we do to make this work again?

We tried that, but that did not work. The strange thing is that from the 2003 server to the 2000 server there were no problems. From 2000 to 2003, even a dir from a shared folder stranded when there were more than 8 files in the folder. The data send would then be more than 1500 bytes.

I vaguely remember a client site where this caused an issue a while ago - is it related to Receive Side Scaling? MS 'turned on' some features in SP2 that were meant to speed up the TCP/IP stack in Windows, but some of them broke things horribly in NAT/VPN environments

Very close. We failed to reboot between the installation of the sp of the OS and the sp of exchange. So we uninstalled the sp of exchange, rebooted and reinstalled the SP of exchange and all was well.
The interesting thing was that the MS specialist tried to solve the problem for more than a week and did not find this sollution.

Very close. We failed to reboot between the installation of the sp of the OS and the sp of exchange. So we uninstalled the sp of exchange, rebooted and reinstalled the SP of exchange and all was well.
The interesting thing was that the MS specialist tried to solve the problem for more than a week and did not find this sollution.

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